Posted March 22, 2017 9:08 am by Comments

By Chris Eger

U.S. Appeals Court Judge Neil Gorsuch waded through 11 hours of committee hearings on Tuesday. (Photo: Joshua Roberts/Reuters)
Senate Judiciary Dems asked tough questions of Judge Gorsuch during his marathon first round of questioning on Tuesday.
Gorsuch, nominated by President Trump to replace the open seat on the U.S. Supreme Court left by the death of Justice Antonin Scalia in 2016, answered questions on his views on gun rights litigation in his second day of hearings.
First to broach the subject in the 11-hour event was Judiciary Committee Chair, U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, who asked Gorsuch about the 2008 Heller decision in which the Supreme Court decided 5-4 that the Second Amendment protects an individual right to bear arms.
“If I ask you to tell me whether Heller was rightly decided, could you answer that question for me?” posed Grassley.
Gorsuch answered that he left his personal views “at home” and that Heller was a precedent of the Supreme Court “and as a good judge you don’t approach that question anew as if it had not been decided.”
The Committee’s ranking Democrat, U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., grilled the nominee on torture and wiretapping activities of the George W. Bush presidency, which Gorsuch served in

Source: Guns.com

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